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The battle for the future of assessment: ‘We must hasten slowly’

Commissions, reviews and reports on the future of assessment and exams are springing up everywhere. Schools Week investigates …   The  headlines have been building for a while. You will have seen them: “Scrap GCSEs”, “Reform exams”, “Focus on skills”. But some of the recent calls for change are not coming from teaching unions, but from voices […]

Feature, News

PiXL is proud to work with schools

The last 15 months have shown how committed, creative and determined the teaching profession has been. Whether it has been learning new IT systems, turning a school virtual overnight, dealing with frequently changing guidance or managing complex issues such as Covid testing, a different approach to transition or TAGS, teachers and leaders in schools have […]

News, Sponsored post, Sponsored post

Robin Conway’s blogs of the week, 7 June 2021

This week’s top blogs cover how to develop articulate learners, a powerful curriculum metaphor, world-building, courageous leadership, lies, damned lies and statistics   Our Vision For Confident and Articulate Students @MissTBegum This is an excellent blog which has at its heart a simple vision: building in students the confidence and communication skills they need to […]

Reviews, The Conversation

Why reducing exclusions is a curriculum matter

A children’s consultation could be a game changer. But only if we’re ready to hear the truth about curriculum’s role in exclusions, writes Meena Kumari Wood “This is the moment for something big,” said new children’s commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza last week. Steered by an ambitious vision of “reducing exclusions to near zero”, she […]

Opinion

Fear is the mind killer by Mannion and McAllister

Ed Finch finds a book that makes a great case for ‘learning to learn’, provided you’re happy to give up doing something else If you’ve been a teacher for a few years you’ll have been on the receiving end of INSET on helping pupils ‘learn to learn’. The word ‘metacognition’ was used a lot. Maybe […]

Reviews, The Review

Discrimination against BAME school business professionals is nothing new

A new report into diversity among school business professionals (SBPs) offers new insights into this under-researched workforce, writes Sandy Tomlinson Last month, ISBL published its first report on diversity in the school business profession. Penned by Dr Fiona Creaby, its findings are based on a small-scale research project because sadly, a more complete data set […]

Opinion, Opinion: Workforce

Sonia Thompson’s blogs of the week, 18 January 2021

The power of short stories, books for social and emotional learning, improving online resources and home-learning engagement are this week’s top picks of the education topics   Time is short – time for short stories: enriching reading & writing with perfectly formed tales @HertsEnglish Herts for English are consistent in their high-quality blogging about English. […]

Reviews

‘I was on posters, I ended up in a magazine. It was bizarre’

Jess Staufenberg talks to one of the country’s youngest ever headteachers who then stayed put for almost 13 years You get the feeling, talking to Liz Robinson, that were it not for her personal values she might have become a top-level Department for Education adviser or chief executive of an enormous multi-academy trust (only a […]

Features

Unlike government, education can talk its way out of a crisis

Oracy plays a crucial role in supporting children to get back into learning, articulate their worries and build relationships, argues Emma Hardy Before Covid struck, I and my colleagues launched a parliamentary inquiry to raise the status of oracy in our education system. At the time, schools minister Nick Gibb was calling for “a debate […]

Opinion